Lexington

摘要

This week, American foreign policy looked like one of those classical Greek masks representing Drama. On one side, a smiley face: America working with allies to win over the "axis of evil". On the other, a grinning, eyeball-rolling, crazy face: a senior Pentagon official saying that terrorism is "our spiritual enemy that will only be defeated if we come against them in the name of Jesus." President George Bush needs to make clearer which is the real face of his foreign policy. During his trip to Asia, the president himself was all smiles and declarations. He said he might offer a written security guarantee to North Korea (though not a non-aggression pact) if it were backed by the other four countries who are seeking to make the Korean peninsula nuclear-free. This was the very model of concerted diplomatic pressure.